Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-17
GENERAL MARKETS.
Produce and provisions.

ST. LOUIS, MO-, May 10 Flour-Quiet and
firm. Wheat higher. The decrease In visible
supply and small sales advanced prices "a
1c, and closed weakened so 18@24c above
Saturday; No. > red cash S5H0s65sc;
June 645a0843sc, closing at S42<c bid; July
SIh@S21sc, closing at size; August S114082c,
ing at SIC. Corn firm but dull; cash SIC bid;
June $500 bid; July 372s 63724 closing at 5724c.
and strong at 81 To- Whisky steady at 81 O5.
quiet. Pork Sl4 0O@l4 80; irregular
meats 6oxe I'd 70; long clears snls
and clear ribs 81 1214 short clear 81 %. Bacon
Observation-Disclosures Sc %; long clear 81 7507 So;
SIS 0O09 ~. Hams quiet and unchan ged at
So 25Gl4 10. Afternoon bOard-Wheat quiet,
dull and firm; July 82062%c; August Sl24@8l25;
September S3Hc. Corn stronger; July 1870
1919. Oats dull and unchanged.
CHICAGO, ILL, May l6.-June wheat opened
this morning at size and at once went to SIG,
higher figure than was touched during the
late manipulatiOns. In May options a nervous
feeling in the crowd was brought about by the
clique operations late Saturday; large export
cleartngs and an expectation OF about 100000
bushels decrease in the visible supply were
causes Of strength. Clique buying during the
first hour of the session was very light, and the
balance of the crowd were in possession of
the market. Nearly every trader in pit
to buy little wheat, and the feeling was very
unanimously bullish At the closing of the first
hour of trading June was bid up S1Ac, with
sellers at that price very few. At midday an
advance of lac had been secured in June
option. Predictions Of 90c for June before
the week was over were made very freely, and
the shorts were extremely nervous. They
started buying themselves and the clique did
not begin to bid very loudly. Early in the day,
after probably an hour from the opening of
the session, the clique were known to be pick
ing up everything offered, and the shorts be-
came panic stricken. Before this prices were
Sl%c and below for June, but
tSae op6 ne sn gsf to TRaTs
considerable short wheat covered, but 1t came
from the crowd promiscuous1y and no very
large lines were eVened up around SS10S614c.
There was short lull and prices again ad-
vaDced. June went right up to $50 @SS2Sc
little later 1t reacted some and at II 80 it was
selling at SS256SS1ac. Immediately after the
afternoon session opened June wheat bulged
to SIC, but failed to hold and settled back to
SSc. Between these two figures it was very
active and the final close was $50 assoc. Corn
to 4O55 G4Oc In the first few minutes, and con
tinued to drag until midday, when some of
the pork men stepped over into the corn
pit and at the time when wheat became
strongest and ran prices for July up to 4118c,
later it reacted to 4114c and remained steady
around 4404125c, at which figure July corn
made provisions weak. Afterward lighter re-
ceipts of hogs at other places and absence of
selling made provisions firm up little, and
July lard went to 81 70 and July ribs to 81 20.
corn had its influence on provisions; July
lard closed at Sc 81 bid, and July
CLOS Closed a. IS fSoW Wheat No NAV se
June sS5sc; July s61Sc; August S41lG Corn
No 2, May 3SKc; June 361ac; July Axe;
August 1890. Mess pork-May and June 81 co.
Lard-May Sc 70; June Sc TX; July Sc S.; Aug
ust Sc 92H. Shortribs, per 100 pounds May
s. 10; June 81 20; July 81 32A; August 81 AK.
Cash quotations: F1our-steady and firm. No.
corn $50 9S81ac. Mess pork 81 90. Lard Sc ESQ
@6 20: Short ribs sides Qoosel s. 1907 Is.
Dry sailed shoulders (boxed) S. 6OG5 20. Short
clear sides (boXed) 81 5507 60.
NEW YORK, May 16.-Flour-Market strong
and shade better. Wheat, spot lots, A61ac
higher and moderately active, closing firm;
options opened firm, soon advanced %0%c,
later weakened and fell back 1z02Sc, steady,
speculation fairly active; spot No red 9736c
at elevator; CSC st store; May 96zsG97xc, and
closing at 97c; June 961z 1887 II Ice, closing at
96%c; July 955SG95 3-l6c, closing at 953<c;
August So 3-l6@93%c, closing at 93Hc
Corn-Market for spot a shade easier and
quiet; options quiet and steady on spot No. 2,
41A94LSc at elevator; 1870 delivered; May
AK @49c, closing at 49c; June AK 6481Sc, clos
ing 1850; July 496492Sc, closing at $780, August
4905014c, closing 501lc' Coffee-Spot fair; Rio
dull and nominal options were lower
and fairly active; sales $4,000 bags;
May SIC 95 June SIC 0O617 10; July SIG sOG17 80;
August SIC 956IT 90; September SIT 00Gl7 45;
October and November ST l5@l7 So: December
ST 26Gl7 65; January and February ST IS o